Postcolonial Issues in Australian Literature
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Publisher: Cambria Press
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Total Pages: 334
ISBN-13: 1621968499
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Publisher: Cambria Press
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Total Pages: 334
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: David Callahan
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2014-02-25
Total Pages: 200
ISBN-13: 1135313814
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe contemporary study of Australian literature ranges widely across issues of general cultural studies, the politics of identity (both ethnic and gendered), and the position of Australia within wider postcolonial contexts. This volume intervenes in the most significant of issues in these areas from a variety of international perspectives.
Author: Graham Huggan
Publisher: Oxford Studies in Postcolonial
Published: 2007-09-27
Total Pages: 210
ISBN-13: 0199229678
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Oxford Studies in Postcolonial Literatures series offers stimulating and accessible introductions to definitive topics and key genres and regions within the rapidly diversifying field of postcolonial literary studies in English.In a provocative contribution to the series, Graham Huggan presents fresh readings of an outstanding, sometimes deeply unsettling national literature whose writers and readers just as unmistakably belong to the wider world. Australian literature is not the unique province of Australian readers and critics; nor is its exclusive task to provide an internal commentary on changing national concerns. Huggan's book adopts a transnational approach, motivated by postcolonial interests, in whichcontemporary ideas taken from postcolonial criticism and critical race theory are productively combined and imaginatively transformed. Rejecting the fashionable view that Australia is not, and never will be, postcolonial, Huggan argues on the contrary that Australian literature, like other settlerliteratures, requires close attention to postcolonial methods and concerns. A postcolonial approach to Australian literature, he suggests, is more than just a case for a more inclusive nationalism; it also involves a general acknowledgement of the nation's changed relationship to an increasingly globalized world. As such, the book helps to deprovincialize Australian literary studies.Australian Literature also contributes to debates about the continuing history of racism in Australia-a history in which the nation's literature has played a constitutive role, as both product and producer of racial tensions and anxieties, nowhere more visible than in the discourse it has produced about race, both within and beyond the national context.
Author: Nathanael O'Reilly
Publisher:
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 317
ISBN-13: 9781613367865
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis Bronze E-Book Edition for institutional buyers provides web reader access and download of an abridged version in PDF and device formats.
Author: Robert Ian Vere Hodge
Publisher: Paul & Company Pub Consortium
Published: 1991-01-01
Total Pages: 253
ISBN-13: 9780044423461
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA critical assessment of Australian literature in a multi-cultural context, with particular reference to Aboriginal, Marxist and feminist perspectives. Includes a bibliography and index.
Author: Belinda Wheeler
Publisher: Camden House
Published: 2013
Total Pages: 242
ISBN-13: 1571135219
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis international collection of eleven original essays on Australian Aboriginal literature provides a comprehensive critical companion that contextualizes the Aboriginal canon for scholars, researchers, students, and general readers.
Author: Graham Huggan
Publisher:
Published: 2023
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781383036350
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHuggan presents a revisionist account of the history of Australian literature, in which contemporary ideas taken from postcolonial criticism and critical race theory are used to inform fresh readings of this unsettling national literature whose writers and readers belong just as unmistakably to the wider world.
Author: Dr Alison Ravenscroft
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Published: 2013-05-28
Total Pages: 208
ISBN-13: 1409479188
DOWNLOAD EBOOKInformed by theories of the visual, knowledge and desire, The Postcolonial Eye is about the 'eye' and the 'I' in contemporary Australian scenes of race. Specifically, it is about seeing, where vision is taken to be subjective and shaped by desire, and about knowing one another across the cultural divide between white and Indigenous Australia. Writing against current moves to erase this divide and to obscure difference, Alison Ravenscroft stresses that modern Indigenous cultures can be profoundly, even bewilderingly, strange and at times unknowable within the terms of 'white' cultural forms. She argues for a different ethics of looking, in particular, for aesthetic practices that allow Indigenous cultural products, especially in the literary arts, to retain their strangeness in the eyes of a white subject. The specificity of her subject matter allows Ravenscroft to deal with the broad issues of postcolonial theory and race and ethnicity without generalising. This specificity is made visible in, for example, Ravenscroft's treatment of the figuring of white desire in Aboriginal fiction, film and life-stories, and in her treatment of contemporary Indigenous cultural practices. While it is located in Australian Studies, Ravenscroft's book, in its rigorous interrogation of the dynamics of race and whiteness and engagement with European and American literature and criticism, has far-reaching implications for understanding the important question of race and vision.
Author: David Callahan
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2014-02-25
Total Pages: 190
ISBN-13: 1135313741
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe contemporary study of Australian literature ranges widely across issues of general cultural studies, the politics of identity (both ethnic and gendered), and the position of Australia within wider postcolonial contexts. This volume intervenes in the most significant of issues in these areas from a variety of international perspectives.
Author: Roderick McGillis
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-05-13
Total Pages: 318
ISBN-13: 1136601007
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book offers a variety of approaches to children's literature from a postcolonial perspective that includes discussions of cultural appropriation, race theory, pedagogy as a colonialist activity, and multiculturalism. The eighteen essays divide into three sections: Theory, Colonialism, Postcolonialism. The first section sets the theoretical framework for postcolonial studies; essays here deal with issues of "otherness" and cultural difference, as well as the colonialist implications of pedagogic practice. These essays confront our relationships with the child and childhood as sites for the exertion of our authority and control. Section 2 presents discussions of the colonialist mind-set in children's and young adult texts from the turn of the century. Here works by writers of animal stories in Canada, the U.S. and Britain, works of early Australian colonialist literature, and Frances Hodgson Burnett's A Little Princess come under the scrutiny of our postmodern reading practices. Section 3 deals directly with contemporary texts for children that manifest both a postcolonial and a neo-colonial content. In this section, the longest in the book, we have studies of children's literature from Canada, Australia, Africa, the Caribbean, and the United States.